Published by the World Wildlife Fund Water overuse, infrastructure, changes in the amount of rainfall, increased temperatures, and the climate crisis are decreasing the amount of water that has historically flowed in the Rio Grande. Read the full article at: https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/how-healthy-is-the-upper-rio-grande
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The president is expected to hail the new U.S. climate law on Friday at the COP27 summit in Egypt. Other countries want to talk money. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/climate/biden-cop27-climate-reparations.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment As global warming delivers cascading weather disasters, leaders at U.N. climate talks say it’s time to radically overhaul the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/climate/imf-world-bank-climate-cop27.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment David Malpass has faced continuing criticism from those who question his commitment to climate action as well as the bank’s track record. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/climate/david-malpass-world-bank-cop27-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment John Kerry, the top U.S. climate negotiator, has met at least three times with his Chinese counterpart at COP27. Their countries are the planet’s biggest polluters. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/climate/john-kerry-xie-zhenhua-cop27.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Several European leaders at COP27 announced funds to help poor nations recover from loss and damage caused by climate change. The United States was silent. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/climate/loss-and-damage-cop27-climate.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment John Kerry, the country’s climate envoy, was expected to announce the carbon offset plan on Wednesday. Payments from companies would go to countries struggling to adopt renewable energy. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/climate/cop27-carbon-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Plus Europe makes climate pledges and Kenya discloses details of a Chinese railroad contract. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/briefing/midterms-elections-cop27-us-asia.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Frustration and distrust among leaders are high. But, for the first time, countries have agreed to discuss funding for climate reparations. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/climate/cop27-egypt-postcard.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment “The things Americans value most are at risk,” says a draft of the National Climate Assessment, a major federal scientific report slated for release next year. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/climate/national-climate-assessment.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A hunger strike in prison by Alaa Abd El Fattah, a prominent dissident, has overshadowed the U.N. climate summit that Egypt is hosting. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/climate/cop27-egypt-activist-alaa-abd-el-fattah.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment No single image tells the story of a climate in crisis, but our photographers have come back from their global travels with an encyclopedia’s worth of pictures that hint at the scope and devastation. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/world/climate-change-global-photos.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment On the first day of COP27, the U.N. climate talks, world leaders urged each other to move faster to cut the pollution that is warming the planet while recognizing the war in Ukraine’s global energy effects and the unequal effects of climate change to date. Read […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Developing nations are reducing their debt by pledging to protect their resources in financial deals that could give them a bigger role in the fight against climate change. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/world/americas/belize-coral-reef-preservation.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment World leaders were addressing the global climate summit, where a key question is whether rich nations will pay for climate-related losses and damage. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/07/climate/cop27-climate-summit
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The U.N.’s cultural agency warns that ice sheets on Kilimanjaro, in the Dolomites and in Yosemite and Yellowstone may disappear by 2050, highlighting travel’s impact on climate change. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/travel/glaciers-melting-unesco.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Red Sea resort hosting the U.N. climate summit has played a role in international diplomacy, but also suffered tragedy. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/climate/sharm-el-sheikh-cop27-egypt.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The leaders of some of history’s largest polluters are slated to speak, as are those from countries that are bearing the brunt of the effects of climate change. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/climate/cop27-attendees-egypt.html
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – The United States today announced that Utica Resource Operating LLC (URO) has agreed to a settlement resolving alleged Clean Air Act violations at URO’s oil and gas production well facilities in Ohio. The settlement addresses URO’s failure to capture and control air emissions from storage vessels […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) LENEXA, KAN. (NOV. 7, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered Michael Zahner of Bollinger County, Missouri, and Mark Schmidt of Lancaster County, Nebraska, to take immediate steps to comply with the federal Clean Water Act. The Agency is also seeking civil penalties for alleged […]